In another movie we looked at the basics of searching the web with Safari, but…there are a couple of other tricks you can use with almost any browser.…For example, I'll go into the combined search address field and I'll enter…Screencasting with the Mac.…I'll then press return to show Google's search page. And you see a lot of different results.…Now I'm going to put that same search in quotes and we'll do that search again.…

This time it pulls up my very own Screencasting with the Mac course here at lynda.com.…So what these quotes do is it forces the search to look for the exact phase…that you've created instead of just looking through the various words in the…phrase and then pulling up a variety of results.…You can also force a search to include a specific word and thus narrow your…results by adding a plus to the word.…So let's go back and do Screencasting + Breen.…

So note that the results include both Screencasting and Breen, so they must…include Breen as part of the results.…You can also exclude words.…

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12/19/2012

In this course, Macworld senior editor Christopher Breen provides a comprehensive overview of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, complete with insider tips for getting the most out of the operating system. The course shows how to configure system preferences, personalize the interface, master gestures, and achieve fluency with applications such as Mail, Calendar, and Preview. The course also includes tutorials on browsing the web with Safari, automating complex tasks with Automator, sharing over a network, performing maintenance operations using Disk Utility, and offers time-saving techniques for using the Mac efficiently. Along the way, Christopher reviews the 200+ new features in Mountain Lion, which gives even experienced Mac users a valuable head start.